Medal - Vladimir Lenin Plan of collectivization of agriculture, 1918 ND

Reverse

Peasant with a horse.

Lettering:
ПЕРЕСЕСТЬ… НА ЛОШАДЬ… ИНДУСТРИИ
ПЛАН КОЛЛЕКТИВИ-
ЗАЦИИ С/Х

Translation:
To change to the horse of industry
Plan of collectivization of agriculture

Engraver: Matvey Genrikhovich Manizer

Comment

The Soviet Union enforced the collectivization of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 during the ascendancy of Joseph Stalin. It began during and was part of the first five-year plan. The policy aimed to consolidate individual landholdings and labour into collective farms: mainly kolkhozy and sovkhozy. The Soviet leadership confidently expected that the replacement of individual peasant farms by collective ones would immediately increase the food supply for the urban population, the supply of raw materials for processing industry, and agricultural exports. Planners regarded collectivization as the solution to the crisis of agricultural distribution (mainly in grain deliveries) that had developed from 1927. This problem became more acute as the Soviet Union pressed ahead with its ambitious industrialization program.